# 出入国管理及び難民認定法 / Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — 第五十五条の八 (Article 55-8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-8. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 出入国管理及び難民認定法 (Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act), 昭和二十六年政令第三百十九号 - English title "Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Issued as a Cabinet Order and given the force of an Act, which is why its number says 政令: Some rules made during the Allied occupation were issued as Cabinet Orders, as orders implementing Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, and an Act passed in 1952 gave them the force of an Act. They keep the Cabinet Order number they were issued under, which is why e-Gov lists the law as an Act while its number says 政令 (Cabinet Order). The Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act (出入国管理及び難民認定法) is one: it was promulgated in 1951 as the Immigration Control Order (出入国管理令), Cabinet Order No. 319 of 1951, has had the force of an Act under Article 4 of Act No. 126 of 1952, took its present title on 1 January 1982, and every amendment on e-Gov's record of it was made by an Act. - Provision: 第五十五条の八 (Article 55-8)（被収容者の分離） — address `art-55-8` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-8 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条の八（被収容者の分離） — Separation of Detainees caption: machine translation, not official art-55-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-8 **第一項** 男子の被収容者と女子の被収容者とは、分離して収容しなければならない。ただし、入国者収容所長等が被収容者が被収容者である乳児を監護する必要がある場合その他特に必要があると認めるときは、この限りでない。 art-55-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-8/par-1 Male detainees and female detainees must be detained separately; provided, however, that this does not apply if the director of the immigration detention center, etc. finds it particularly necessary, such as in the case where a detainee needs to care for an infant who is a detainee. machine translation, not official **第二項** 入国者収容所長等は、第五十五条の十九第二項の身体の検査及び第五十五条の四十九第二項の身体又は着衣の検査以外の場合であつても、女子の被収容者の処遇については、女子の入国警備官に行わせるように努めなければならない。 art-55-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-8/par-2 The director of the immigration detention center, etc. must endeavor to have female immigration control officers carry out the treatment of female detainees, even in cases other than the physical inspection set forth in Article 55-19, paragraph (2) and the inspection of the body or clothing set forth in Article 55-49, paragraph (2). machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-55-8/par-2: 第五十五条の十九第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の十九第二項 (Article 55-19, paragraph (2)), art-55-19/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-19/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-19/par-2 - art-55-8/par-2: 第五十五条の四十九第二項 → 出入国管理及び難民認定法 第五十五条の四十九第二項 (Article 55-49, paragraph (2)), art-55-49/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/immigration-control-act/art-55-49/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/326CO0000000319/art-55-49/par-2 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/326CO0000000319/20261001_508AC0000000032), retrieved 2026-10-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3624/tb), retrieved 2026-09-13 - claude-opus-5[1m] — Machine translation, batch immigration-control-act-20260913T134912-014, translated 2026-09-13 - This site's parser, version 223 — 出入国管理及び難民認定法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-05